Re: Lansa vs. Plex

PLEX is the new name for Synon/Obsydian (remember IBM's strategic direction?), so we're talking about 4GL or CASE tools here. ProGen Plus is another, and BCD (www.bcdsoftware.com) claims a 2001 SHOWCASE Product Excellence Award for 4 years in a row. I've never used it myself. Anyone remember Genesis from Sofbro?

At 10:00 AM 2/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:

Jimmy,

Enjoy the journey.

There are a whole plethora of tools out there.  However, different tools
for different jobs.  I am not familiar with either of the tools, nor what
job they are supposed to solve.

Other jobs you may want to consider tools for are:

- Change Management
- High Availability
- Programming productivity
- Database manipulation
- Reporting
- Web interfacing

I don't know if this will help you:
http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/10.html

I searched the archives at:
http://archive.midrange.com/
and found 273 hits for lansa and 17 hits for plex.  Most of the hits for
plex had lansa in the title so maybe there is some good comparison?

Rob Berendt

"Green, Jimmy" <jgreen@grocerysupply.com>
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We are converting from mainframe to iSeries.  We are evaluating
development
tools.  We have narrowed it down to Lansa and CA's advantage Plex.  I was
wondering about some real users opions of the products.  Do more prefer
Plex
or Lansa? Maybe some pros and cons for both.

Thanks for your help!!!

Jimmy Green
I.T. Operations Mgr.
Grocery Supply Co.
903 885-7621 Ext 268